Welcome to Flude & Associates

About Us

Flude & Associates Ltd is a specialist Consultancy and Project Management business which primarily assists South African private clients who own assets in South Africa and around the world. We assist South African entrepreneurs, professionals and retirees who require bespoke Legal, Fiduciary, Estate & Relocation Planning to protect their assets and business interests in South Africa, the UK and other jurisdictions popular with South Africans.

A niche South African-centred Family Office based in London, with an affiliate legal practice in Cape Town, and a longstanding connection to the Isle of Man, Flude & Associates is able to seamlessly assist South African private clients who own assets in South Africa and globally.

Why Us?

Flude & Associates is a bespoke, discrete and highly-regarded professional consultancy business acting mainly for South African private clients with multi-jurisdictional interests, including South Africa. Our long track record as highly trusted family advisors, enables us – together with our licensed and regulated Associates – to act as Attorneys, Agents, Family Officers, Directors, and Project Managers, as well as Trustees and Executors for longstanding private clients.

We simplify the complex and seamlessly bind together all the strands of the multi-jurisdictional Estate Plans, Business and Relocation strategies for wealthy South African families and entrepreneurs, acting as their trusted and reliable central point of contact.

Key Person - Paul Flude

Serving clients faithfully with excellence and integrity in South Africa and internationally for over 20 years

“Leave it with me”

Paul Flude is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and uniquely positioned in London as a Practising Member of the Legal Practice Council of South Africa*. Paul Flude specialises in Private Client matters, Strategic Projects, and Relocation matters with a special focus on estate- and relocation planning for global South African families, entrepreneurs and professionals. He is a former Executive Director of the Global Investor Immigration Council (GIIC).

Known as “Mr Reliable” to his longstanding clients, Paul is a trusted family advisor, attorney, executor, trustee, and director for South African families, businesses and trusts in a career of more than 20 years. He has amassed a wealth of experience in the legal, fiduciary, and immigration industries in South Africa, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, Switzerland, and the UK. Paul relocated to the UK after a period in the Isle of Man, whilst still maintaining his strong ties to his native South Africa.

As an entrepreneur in his own right, he assists clients to relocate internationally and migrate their business interests to the UK and other global jurisdictions. He has gained significant expertise in the niche sector of citizenship-by-investment and global residence, with particular experience in the UK, Portugal, Malta, Cyprus and Caribbean programmes.

*Membership number 7626. Paul Flude is an independent Consultant Attorney at Gunston Strandvik Attorneys in Cape Town. Gunston Strandvik Attorneys Inc. is authorised & regulated by the Legal Practice Council in South Africa.

ESTATE PLANNING & ASSET PROTECTION

RELOCATION & EMIGRATION

Testimonials

People trust you, they always have. You have a special gift with people.

There is such a thing as an honest lawyer; his name is Paul Flude.

Paul Flude has been our personal and family lawyer for the past 16 years. He is smart, hard-working, creative and ethical and has always striven to give us the best advice possible. This he does with warmth, humour and flair but his advice has always been sound, long-term and strategically smart. It is a pleasure to recommend Paul to others. He is an asset to any person, family or corporation in need of sound legal advice.

I'm so relieved that my affairs are now in order, thanks to your efforts. You’re the most efficient person I know! Thanks for all of your help!

I have so appreciated your involvement with the trust, your advice, time and confidence. You helped me make some huge decisions. I am most grateful to have met you. I acknowledge you for being of "generational type" kin who hold the value of good relationships. A rarity in this world.

I have known Paul for 20 years, and I have known him as colleague, lawyer, director, advisor and businessman. Paul has a wealth of experience in a number of roles in a career spanning law, fiduciary services, company director and entrepreneur. He combines a high level of technical expertise in South African and international estate planning, wills, trusts and fiduciary services, together with business acumen and corporate governance as a commercial director and business owner. This means that he has the unique ability to act as a legal advisor and specialist as well as providing macro analysis of corporate affairs, risk and strategy. He operates at more than one level: he is used to interfacing with directors, business owners and CEO’s, providing high-level input to boards and management; but with individual clients, providing focused advice and immediate service. His clients always come first and his response time is world-class. I can highly recommend Paul as a man of many talents, an asset to any organisation, a trusted advisor to any client and extremely competent, ethical, hard-working and knowledgeable. And he has a good sense of humour too!

It has been a pleasure dealing with you. You have a great sense of humour and are kind and helpful too, unlike many professionals. You have definitely dispelled the myth in my mind that all lawyers are bastards.

Thank you very much for your prompt reply. I imagine you must be very successful, as you sound very nice as well as very professional.

You have done the ‘hard yards’ and I suspect your business will only increase over the next decade as reality ‘bites’ in South Africa.